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Next
up, we have an Intel supplied benchmark that
utilizes applications that exploit the Pentium 4's
architecture. Multimedia applications and
applications that make use of the high bandwidth of
the processor, will typically show the greatest gain
in performance with the Pentium 4. One such
application is Cannon's eJay MP3 Software for
generating MP3 and WAV audio files that it will
"burn" on a CDR for you or on to your hard
disk. It also will let you convert MP3 files
to WAV and back. Here is a shot of the
application in action.
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for full view
At
any rate, this is one of many applications that are
utilized within the Intel "Application Launcher
V2.1" utility that was provided with the P4
test system. Here are the results.
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| Intel
Application Launcher v2.1 - Windows
2000 Pro Performance |
| Stressing
the Pentium 4 and showing its
strengths... |
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Intel Application Launcher
v2.1:
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all images for full view
Pentium
4 1.5GHz.
Pentium 3
1GHz.
Athlon 1GHz.
Two
notables should be pointed out in this test.
Both the P3 and the Athlon failed to perform the
Ligos Go Motion test, so that test was not performed
in those runs. We also ran the eJay tests a
couple of times within the Pentium 3 and Athlon
runs, to show you the variance between runs, which
was minimal.
As
you can see, in each of the runs that were common to
all processors, the Pentium 4 has a commanding
lead. The gain was 25% to over 50% as was
noted versus the 1GHz. Athlon score in the Video
Studio test. Again, this is an Intel compiled
benchmark. We expected to see measurable gains
since Intel prepared the playing field here.
Let's look at some industry standard third party
benchmark suites now.
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| Content
Creation Winstone 2001 - Ziff Davis
Media |
| More
high end business and productivity
tests |
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Recently released, Content
Creation Winstone 2001 utilizes applications
like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Macromedia
Director and Macromedia Dreamweaver. These
applications tend to stress a system more than a
word processor or other low end business application
but are not as taxing as the audio and video streams
utilized in applications like eJay MP3 and Video
Studio. Here's how the Pentium 4 stacks up.
Here
we see the Pentium 4 1.5GHz. Processor is only about
11% faster than its 1GHz. counterparts. Again,
these tests are more user input driven and less
bandwidth and processing intensive. However,
they are on the higher end of the
"Productivity" spectrum. Clearly,
when a processing load is placed on the system versus
I/O intensive tasks, the Pentium 4 begins to break
out more.
Bapco
Sysmark 2000 and Gaming Benchmarks
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